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Bible Study The Past

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What does the bible say about reminise and going back into or too places of the past for reminise, as there is past, present, and future.
 
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kiwidan said:
What does the bible say about reminise and going back into or too places of the past for reminise, as there is past, present, and future.
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I suppose it depends on why you are causing your mind to go back. Are you reliving a good memory? Nothing wrong with that. If what God considers sin, that's wrong....A Christian should not spend a lot of time in the past because we can't change that. It's today that we should be concerned with....Again, nothing wrong with remembering a good person, loved one, or a wonderful experience that makes you happy.
 
Its nothing negative or sinful or forgeting God. Past places of peaceful memories and where you had the most joy. Re living happy memories and acturaly going back to those places, not just thoughts in the mind.
 
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kiwidan said:
What does the bible say about reminise and going back into or too places of the past for reminise, as there is past, present, and future.
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It's of extreme importance to "consider" what has transpired prior. Don't we do that when we observe the life of Jesus? Don't we "consider" our own lives similarly? Don't we observe the ways of the past of the O.T?

Of course we look back, we consider, we weigh, contemplate, see many things, and in that, we consider our ways forward.

Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

I can't even begin to speak of all the old timers I have sat down with, and absorbed their ways, in doing so, them "adding" to me their collective understandings. There is a very certain form of strength in doing this.

There is delight in hearing of their victories. How their situations unfolded. How they responded. What the outcome was. And conversely, their regrets, which are much harder to obtain, because few people will trust you with their regrets and failures. But these interest me the most. Such treasure is only yielded up in trust. Trust is not an easily formed bond.

My own father, on his deathbed, for several weeks, laid there with his eyes closed. It was amazing to see and to hear what transpired in him. He was essentially reliving his life, in his mind, reviewing all the paths he took. And THEN he started traveling FORWARD. This is what gave him the strength to DIE, and took him to his last breath, in anticipations. He died very graciously, humbly. He had lived a good hardworking responsible life, and was deeply respected in the community as an "honorable trustworthy" man. Hundreds mourned his passing.

I have had vast amounts of treasures handed to me, freely, from my elders, by respecting the subjective history of their lives.

It is my personal belief that the subjectivity of every person's life, is absorbed into God, on all counts. And I know that when my time comes, my life will have served the collective in good and bad.

ALL will contribute this to God. In this, we owe and pay tribute to our Maker.

I also know every tear will be repaid with joy, inexpressible. God has shown me this, personally, by tasting of His Joy, that I found first, in tears caused by great pressures of this life.
 
Jim Parker said:
George Santayana: "'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

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Indeed. I'm often reminded of that when viewing some of the more 'dire' aspects of historical christian orthodoxy. It will never be possible to 'look back' and see that the people engaged therein had "perfect sight," "perfect actions." and I might even add "perfect doctrines/dogmas."

We might consider their contributions on the lesser side of events to be a fulcrum to always press forward into better things and better understandings until The Perfect comes.
 
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